Kik is a messaging app, similar to whatsapp or whatever, but you don’t need to give it your mobile number. Instead you choose a username and that’s how people find you...ie. they need to know your username. You do give it your email also, but I obviously used my punting email, and you can give it access to your contact list, which I declined.
I’d noticed some girls had started to ask to converse through it so checked it out. Through the relatively brief reading I did about kik, it seemed anonymous. All the other user could see is your username.
So, probably stupidly, I decided to use it on my personal smartphone just for the ease of it.
Anyway, I matched with a girl on a hook-up app, switched to kik at the girl’s request, messaged a bit more. We met up, had my usual 30 minutes, not much chat, and I left. The next day she sends a message simply saying, “you are a ...?” and named my job.
Now I suppose it could have been a lucky guess, or perhaps something I said alluded to it but I’m very suspicious that Kik “outed” me. But I don’t know how. Even if it did land me up on “people you may know” on facebook or whatever, my privacy settings are pretty stringent if you’re not a friend and I never mention my job on social media anyway. It has really perplexed me.
Be interesting to hear other’s thoughts and experience of Kik and if something similar has ever happened to them. At least be careful if you are using it.
